All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.